If you have a spare laptop or printer that is just lying around the house/office, please contact me.WE NEED THOSE DESPERATELY!!!

The Facebook post was shared by a large group of people but I have yet to receive even 1 message from a prospective donor. Disappointing. However, the need was too great for me to stop there. So, during the Raya break, I returned to my hometown & asked around. I found an old 2008 Dell Inspiron 1525 which used to belong to my sister which was passed on to my brother who passed it on to my mother who forgot the password. We have a new computer at home so I asked for this one to be donated to the school.

Firstly, I checked & found that the old laptop could turn on & windows could load. The forgotten Windows Login Password was the only deterrent. At that time, I had no idea how to do remove/bypass it. But, I knew someone who did... Mr Google.

Initially, I was given a list of websites trying to sell me applications to recover/remove the password. They also offered (fake) trials which does not do anything unless I paid for it. No, thanks. I changed my phrasing a little bit & found exactly what I was looking for & learned from a full step-by-step tutorial. If this doesn't work for you, you can try these 7 other free password recovery tools.

From zero to hero in less than 1 hour (including searching as well as trial & error). I wrote this guide so that you can do what I did in less than 10 minutes. What I did works with XP/Vista/7/8.

2. Copy the Contents to a USB Drive
Copy all the files inside "usb******.zip" onto the root of your USB drive. Not inside any folder.
Don't worry about other files on the USB drive. They will not be disturbed at all.

4. Install the Bootdisk Application onto your USB Drive
In Command Prompt, type "X:syslinux.exe -ma X:". X = the drive letter of your USB drive.
There will be a pause & an empty line in Command Prompt. When the cursor appears again, that means it's done.
If you get an error message, it means that you did not use Command Prompt "Run as administrator". Go back to #3.

B) Remove the Windows Login Password

1. Boot from the USB Drive

Power up & load the Boot Menu with either ESC, F10 or F12.Then, select the option of booting from USB.

2. Wait
If successful, you'll see the application load & your screen will be filled with ineligible text.

3. Select the Disk Partition where your Windows OS is Installed

Use the numbers to make your selection. It's usually the one with more data.

4. Select "Password Reset"

Press: 1 + Enter

5. Select "Edit user data and passwords"

Press: 1 + Enter

6. Select the User Account you want to Reset

Key in the RID of your user account + Enter

7. Select "Clear (blank) user password"

Press: 1 + Enter

8. Exit & Save the Changes

Press: q + EnterThen, press: y + Enter

9. Restart your Computer & Voila!! No More Password!!
=D

Was this helpful to you? Do you have an easier/better solution?
Let me know in the comments below!

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”

~~Patañjali

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them to become what they are capable of being."

~~Goethe

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

~~EE Cummings

"Tell me and I will forget. Teach me and I will remember. Involve me and I will learn."

~~Benjamin Franklin

自知知,不知知不知

知者自知,不知者不知

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."

~~Albert Einstein

"Teaching is more than impacting knowledge, it is inspiring change."

~~William Arthur Ward

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

~~Napoleon Hill

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."

~~John Dewey

"The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings."

~~Thomas Sowell

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

~~ Edmund Burke

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."